Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordis Wuthering…
She has her co-star’s back.
Margot Robbie has defended Jacob Elordi after his casting as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s upcoming “Wuthering Heights” movie adaptation drew major backlash from critics.
“I get it,” the “Barbie” star, 35, acknowledged during an interview with British Vogue printed Thursday. “There’s nothing else to go off at this point until people see the movie.”
Margot Robbie at the National Gallery in London, England, on Feb. 17, 2024. BAFTA via Getty Images
Jacob Elordi in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, on May 27, 2022. Dave Benett/Getty Images for TAG Heuer
“I saw him play Heathcliff, and he is Heathcliff,” she continued. “I’d say, just wait. Trust me, you’ll be happy.”
Both Robbie and Elordi, 28, confronted backlash when “Wuthering Heights” was first announced in July 2024.
While some followers criticized the “I, Tonya” actress for being too outdated to play Catherine, who is described as “almost 17” with “brown ringlets” at the outset of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, others chided Elordi due to his race.
Although the colour of Heathcliff’s pores and skin is left ambiguous in the unique guide, he’s described at one level as a “dark-skinned gipsy” who needs he had “light hair and a fair skin.”
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the poster for Emerald Fennell’s upcoming “Wuthering Heights” movie adaptation. Warner Bros.
Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Margot Robbie as Catherine in “Wuthering Heights.” ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Robbie, however, insisted that the “Euphoria” star is the best match for the position and gushed about Elordi’s model of her onscreen lover.
“It’s a character that has this lineage of other great actors who’ve played him, from Laurence Olivier to Richard Burton and Ralph Fiennes to Tom Hardy,” she famous.
“I’d say, just wait. Trust me, you’ll be happy,” Robbie said. Warner Bros.
Jacob Elordi in “Wuthering Heights.” Warner Bros.
“To be a part of that is special,” Robbie added. “He’s incredible, and I believe in him so much. I honestly think he’s our generation’s Daniel Day-Lewis.”
Casting director Kharmel Cochrane, who labored with Fennell on “Saltburn” before becoming a member of “Wuthering Heights,” said one thing related over the summer time while discussing the upcoming film at the Sands International Film Festival of St. Andrews.
“There’s definitely going to be some English lit fans that are not going to be happy,” she acknowledged in August, per Entertainment Weekly.
Margot Robbie at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, England, on Sept. 11, 2025. Samir Hussein/WireImage
Jacob Elordi at the Newport Beach Film Festival in Newport Beach, California, on Oct. 16, 2025. Getty Images for Newport Beach Film Festival
“Just wait until you see it, and then you can decide whether you want to shoot me or not,” Cochrane joked. “But you really don’t need to be accurate. It’s just a book. That is not based on real life. It’s all art.”
Elsewhere during her new interview, the “Suicide Squad” star opened up about being three months postpartum when they started taking pictures “Wuthering Heights.”
Robbie and her husband, Tom Ackerley, welcomed their first baby together in October 2024.
Margot Robbie at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 9, 2024. WireImage
Jacob Elordi during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 8, 2025. Getty Images
“So I was in a very different headspace,” she shared. “I didn’t do my usual routine. It was more haphazard. And I remember saying to Emerald, ‘What if I’m not prepared enough?’”
“She kept saying, ‘I don’t want you to prepare. I just need you to be in the moment,’” she added. “Which was a lovely way of relieving my anxiety. It was about being in my body as opposed to my head.”
As for the film itself, Robbie assured followers that it is probably not as “very, very raunchy” as some may count on.
Margot Robbie in London, England, on Feb. 17, 2024. WireImage for Charles Finch
Jacob Elordi attends the thirty fifth Gotham Film Awards in New York City on Dec. 1, 2025. WireImage
“I think people will be surprised,” she explained. “Not to say there aren’t inappropriate elements and that it’s not provocative – it definitely is provocative – but it’s more romantic than provocative.”
“This is a big epic romance,” Robbie concluded.
“Wuthering Heights” is scheduled to hit theaters Feb. 14, 2026.
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